Letter to the editor : Why don
' t more schools test for radon?
TRIBLIVE TRIBLIVETUE , DEC 17 , 2024 • 07:00 AM
Some of process . us will do anything to save a buck , even indirectly kill other people in the
We let cancer kill about 500,0000 Americans each year . Allow me to break this down to any hometown .
A hometown is part of a school district , and the district is funded by tax dollars . Now , does your school district do radon testing ? After all , second only to smoking and secondhand smoke , radon is the leading cause of lung cancer . Does your school district allow smoking in any of the rooms or neglect to filter out smoke , and or neglect to alarm for smoke in any of the rooms ? I ’ m sure the answer is “ no .” So why does only 1 in 5 U . S. school rooms test for radon , which is odorless , colorlesss and tastelesss and can ’ t be filtered out from indoor air ? Therefore , the other 4 out of 5 U . S . schoolrooms are not doing radon testing , presumably to save a few bucks .
Why would a school not test for the second leading cause of lung cancer , when lung cancer is the leading type of diagnosed cancer and it is not expensive to testt for radon and get rid of radon in any schoolroom ?
Let ’ s expect our schools to do the best testing for everyone ’ s better health and safety , with our tax dollars .
Dennis Smiddle Canonsburg